From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 10 17:53:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0191B37B406 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA96157 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:53:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27656; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:52:27 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200107110052.KAA27656@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generating encrypted passwords In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:31:37 -0400. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:52:27 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to all for comments. I have submitted a patch against makekey as PR bin/28885. And regarding srand for generating salts: No need for crypto-level randomness as the salts are public knowledge anyway. Only requirement is that they are reasonably flatly distributed across the salt-space. (Is that a word??) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message